Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]GovExec.com[/b] August 5, 2008 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., Tuesday asked the Justice Department, the Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency to describe the documents being withheld from the committee un...
Grizzly Groundswell (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Representative Henry Waxman (D. Ca), power crazed Chairman of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in rebutting President Bush’s weekly radio address to the nation, made the statement, “it was a very good week for the American public.” Was it really a good week for us? Representative Waxman thinks so as he boasted [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Two bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives are aimed at protecting American children, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said Saturday.The first, to reinvigorate the Consumer Product Safety Commission and strengthen its ability to assure safe toys for our children, Waxman said during the weekly Democratic radio address. The second is legislation that provides the authority to regulate tobacco...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
We are in the final months of President Bush's last term. But through our legislative efforts, we are giving the next Administration the tools it will need to start putting public health - and especially the health of our children - first. Government at its best can work. It was a very good week for the American public. And best of all, it was a very good week for our kids.
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Rep. Henry Waxman says in the Democrats’ weekly radio address that Congress is working to overcome years of GOP neglect, and that health care will be a top priority in the next administration. Read the full story
Fox News (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Rep. Henry Waxman says in the Democrats' weekly radio address that Congress is working to overcome years of GOP neglect, and that health care will be a top priority in the next administration.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The House on Wednesday by a veto-proof 326-102 vote approved legislation (HR 1108) that would give FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products, the New York Times reports (Saul, New York Times, 7/31). The measure, introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), would allow FDA to ban flavored additives, with an exemption for menthol flavoring (Yoest, Wall Street Journal, 7/31).
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
By which I mean: Support them when one is apparently raped and murdered and the U.S. Army rules it a suicide. Darcy has more details on the fate of Private LaVena Johnson. There's a petition calling on Henry Waxman to launch a full inquiry. Please sign on.
The Hollywood Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Special Counsel Says He Has No Plans To Resign From Office Yesterday we learned that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote a letter to Special Counsel Scott Bloch urging the embattled chief of the independent investigative office to step down. Bloch’s had a lot of problems lately. He’s under investigation by the… [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Government officials were misled by Blackwater in order to obtain lucrative contracts, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said.Waxman's charge followed the release of a report Monday by the Small Business Administration's inspector general, alleging that Blackwater Worldwide used affiliates to gain 39 contracts for which it might not have been eligible as a small business. The report also noted that...
www.radioleft.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
On July 24, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on problems that continue to plague the Medicare drug benefit (the hearing, which was amply attended but ignored by the Washington Post , was previously referenced on this blog site). As Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chair of the committee, noted in his opening statement , one of the problems facing investigators is lack...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Special Counsel Scott Bloch is under investigation by the FBI. His own employees can't stand him. And now pressure is mounting from Capitol Hill for one of Washington's top watchdogs to step down. House oversight committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA)...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The Jamie Leigh Jones-Halliburton rape case was horrific, but what happened to PFC Lavena Johnson in Iraq in 2005 was many orders of magnitudes worse. The parents of the young Missouri woman were told that she dies of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and her death was ruled a suicide. But her physician father became suspicious after looking at injuries to the body ...
eDrugSearch Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Jacob Goldstein at the Wall Street Journal Health Blog reported Friday: It was dueling reports yesterday on Capitol Hill, as Democrats argued that Medicare is paying way too much for prescription drugs and Republicans countered that the spending is on target. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee and a longtime critic of the Medicare Part [...]
Managed Care Matters (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Two days after going down in defeat, overwhelmed by the physician lobby and AARP, health plans received another shot into the bow. Rep Henry Waxman announced his intention to schedule Congressional hearings on insurance companies practices in the individual insurance...
